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Professor Aoi received his PhD in Biomathematics from North Carolina State University, where he focused on studying the regulatory mechanisms of cerebral blood flow. His postdoctoral work took place in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Boston University as part of the multi-institution Cognitive Rhythms Collaborative. He worked at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute lab of Jonathan Pillow. Aoi's research spans the areas of computational neuroscience, machine learning, and statistics. His team investigates how populations of neurons coordinate their activity to implement computations, specifically focusing on understanding the dynamics of behavior through neural population activity. Using both new data analysis tools and theoretical frameworks, his work aims to provide meaningful insights into the computational significance of statistical descriptions of neural activity within increasingly complex datasets. Close collaboration between experimentalists and theorists characterizes the collaborative setting of Aoi's lab, fostering a culture of integration between various scientific methodologies.
University of California, San Diego • La Jolla, CA
Conducting research in computational neuroscience, focusing on neural population activity and its computational significance.
Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).